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Winnscott (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:18 PM Original message |
Little did I know that J. Edgard Hoover was gay |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. many will be speechless! |
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Winnscott (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It's a 2000 article, but I had never read it elsewhere |
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nancyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's been a well-known fact for many years. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. I've known for years. But think about it. No TV news at all then, |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I'm pretty sure there was TV news. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Gosh, that late? Ugh. I didn't know. |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:28 AM Response to Reply #17 |
33. Absolutely that late. |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Anyone KNOW about |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. He was fond of cross-dressing too. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. What the hell? |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. I thought it was just cross dressing. |
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riverwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
8. He liked chiffon |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. "an ambiguously gay crime-fighting duo" |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. OMG, I thought everybody knew that! |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yes I did and John Wayne was a close personal friend. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. He had a sort of understanding with Allen Dulles of the CIA. |
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Winnscott (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. He was good at withholding things |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hoover, Roy Cohn. Two tragic figures. |
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WillowTree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
16. Common knowledge for 20 years or more. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. It was common knowledge among the gay men I knew in grad school |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
19. Ummm... duh??? |
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Ken in SF (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. Way old news |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. fat ass Jerry Falwell will be waiting there for them...I'm just sayin. |
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Beregond2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. You're kidding, right? Everyone knows that. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. What on earth led you to an article from Jan. 5, 2000? |
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Doc_Technical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. Check out the movie "Naked Gun: from the files of Police Squad" |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
25. Cons are so perverted and twisted that even farm animals are nervous |
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sweetroxie (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. I've known about it forever |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
27. Yes, he wore a tie that said "ambiguously gay" |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-06-08 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. I've known it about as long as I can remember. n/t |
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neomonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
30. Oh yeah, he a nd Clyde Tolson |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
31. It's okay, he didn't really know it himself. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
32. That has been a well known fact and common knowledge for years. |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:32 AM Response to Original message |
34. Hey, didn't Bush or Rove have a fling with that dude Jeff Gannon? |
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